Solicitor very disappointed in mri results!!!

xxlauraxxox

hey guys
id a crash in april when a guy ran into the back of me....to make a long story short he aggrivated an old injury with my neck and back from an accident in 2009...anyhow all above board and is running smoothly at the moment id an mri scan in my neck,back and a shoulder a few weeks ago and everything seems ok and the doctur to advised its all soft tissue related and just keep psyiotherphy and the pain killers and i should keep up swimming for my back and neck...i was in at a meeting with my solicitor today and he seems very disappointed that my mri showed clear ..im not expecting a massive settlement i just want the pain and suffering ive suffered and expenses paid for..shouldnt he be happy ive no long term damage cus i am
just wondering does this sound professional to anyone else

coylemj

No it doesn't sound professional. Clearly he doesn't subscribe to the notion that good health is more important than money and he's more interested in his fees than in your well-being.

xxlauraxxox

coylemj wrote: »

No it doesn't sound professional. Clearly he doesn't subscribe to the notion that good health is more important than money and he's more interested in his fees than in your well-being.

ya i thought as much myself im actually delighted with them....but soft tissue and whiplast are wrose than any visual damage

krd

xxlauraxxox wrote: »

.i was in at a meeting with my solicitor today and he seems very disappointed that my mri showed clear

Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk. *slow head shake* then *head bow* (to conceal my smirk)

shouldnt he be happy ive no long term damage cus i am

I'm afraid your happiness does not pay the mortgages on his boom time property portfolio.

And you should be very happy that you have no long term damage. People may be over the moon with a few grand for a claim - but after a few years the money will be gone, and the pain will remain. And chronic injuries tend to just get worse with age.

just wondering does this sound professional to anyone else

"professional" in some kind of abstract Platonic sense, or in the sense of the reality of Irish "professionals".

ResearchWill

xxlauraxxox wrote: »

hey guys
id a crash in april when a guy ran into the back of me....to make a long story short he aggrivated an old injury with my neck and back from an accident in 2009...anyhow all above board and is running smoothly at the moment id an mri scan in my neck,back and a shoulder a few weeks ago and everything seems ok and the doctur to advised its all soft tissue related and just keep psyiotherphy and the pain killers and i should keep up swimming for my back and neck...i was in at a meeting with my solicitor today and he seems very disappointed that my mri showed clear ..im not expecting a massive settlement i just want the pain and suffering ive suffered and expenses paid for..shouldnt he be happy ive no long term damage cus i am
just wondering does this sound professional to anyone else

Can I ask are you still in Pain? If so I can fully understand your solicitors issue. The worst case to have is a client that all scans show no issue but client still in pain. Especially if after a couple of years pain still there, nothing worse than trying to explain to a client in pain why the best you can get is X when X will not really compensate for the injury. But judges don't like when there is no solid evidence.

xxlauraxxox

ResearchWill wrote: »

Can I ask are you still in Pain? If so I can fully understand your solicitors issue. The worst case to have is a client that all scans show no issue but client still in pain. Especially if after a couple of years pain still there, nothing worse than trying to explain to a client in pain why the best you can get is X when X will not really compensate for the injury. But judges don't like when there is no solid evidence.

i wouldnt be as bad as what i was but im still limited in work as to what to do still get headaches in the morning a few times a week when i wake up.Frankly my doctur has said there is wear and tear in my neck and back that shouldnt be there as im only 24. i know judges dont like when their isnt solid evidence but i dont have a 1000e to throw away on a mri and over 500e on psyio never mind docturs and tablets!!!!!

ResearchWill

xxlauraxxox wrote: »

i wouldnt be as bad as what i was but im still limited in work as to what to do still get headaches in the morning a few times a week when i wake up.Frankly my doctur has said there is wear and tear in my neck and back that shouldnt be there as im only 24. i know judges dont like when their isnt solid evidence but i dont have a 1000e to throw away on a mri and over 500e on psyio never mind docturs and tablets!!!!!

You paid a grand for a MRI, that's expensive Euromedics is €195 for an MRI. Firstly in your OP you said MRI is clear now you say showing degenerative wear and tear in back. If your Dr. Is saying that should not be there is he saying its caused by accident or it would have happened anyway. If it would have happened anyway then that's not good news for you or your case hence disappointment.

nuac

MRI scans are a fairly recent innovation. As already stated people can have chronic pain without anything showing up on scans etc.

Whatever about the price of the scan, interpretation of it is a matter for an experienced radiologist.

Talk to your GP about further investigation/treatment

daenerysstormborn3

ResearchWill wrote: »

Can I ask are you still in Pain? If so I can fully understand your solicitors issue. The worst case to have is a client that all scans show no issue but client still in pain. Especially if after a couple of years pain still there, nothing worse than trying to explain to a client in pain why the best you can get is X when X will not really compensate for the injury. But judges don't like when there is no solid evidence.

I say the same thing. I sustained a fractured ankle in a motorbike accident in April, my left foot and leg continue to swell to 2-3 times the size of the right side. I had an MRI about a month ago and the MRI pretty much showed everything was grand aside from one very slight problem, of course I was disappointed, as was my solicitor. I wanted to have the MRI and the MRI to show that x and y was the problem and a and b would fix the problems. Instead I have been sent back to the physio in the hope that he can fix the swelling through manipulation. There is another side to the "disappointment" expressed by your solicitor, it's not just money.

Procrastastudy

Professional and detached you're an asshat

Wear your heart on your sleeve you're an asshat

Can't win

nuac

Can take a long time for the ankle injury to clear up. Load bearing joint.

That is not a medical opinion, just from reading medical reports over the years.

xxlauraxxox

Procrastastudy wrote: »

Professional and detached you're an asshat

Wear your heart on your sleeve you're an asshat

Can't win

What's an asshat?? :-) it's wear and tear from the accident muscle spasms caused it

xxlauraxxox

Procrastastudy wrote: »

Professional and detached you're an asshat

Wear your heart on your sleeve you're an asshat

Can't win

What's an asshat?? :-) it's wear and tear from the accident muscle spasms caused it

Procrastastudy

Its a stupid American term slightly more polite than a**e hole

I like to think of it as a person walking around using a donkey as head wear.

xxlauraxxox

Procrastastudy wrote: »

Its a stupid American term slightly more polite than a**e hole

I like to think of it as a person walking around using a donkey as head wear.

Lol hope you ain't calling me that ;-)
Like the word though